Re: Web versions

Alfred M. Szmidt wrote:
>        2.  Browsers do not offer POSIX API to JS/WebAssembly for very good 
>    reasons.
>
> The other issue is that it wouldn't really be an operating system, if
> it runs in a web browser.  Which kinda is the whol point of the GNU
> project. :-)
>   

The GNU project also provides some application software.  Octave or 
Emacs, to name two examples, could usefully be offered as "run this in 
your browser" in addition to the regular native ports, but general lower 
performance and Web security policies are likely to make browser ports 
of packages like R and libGMP useful only as demonstrations.


-- Jacob